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March 12th, 2009, 11:55 AM

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Bash-4 breaks scripts with $(command) syntax

I just installed Bash-4 on my FreeBSD machine. Much to my surprise, the following syntax no longer works:

$(uname)

It produces this error message:

syntax error near unexpected token ')'

How can I correct this other than using the depreciate "`" tic method? I have several scripts that use this syntax.

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